republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-238.md

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Bill	Create Front Range Passenger Rail District	The act creates the front range passenger rail district (district) for the purpose of planning, designing, developing, financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining an interconnected passenger rail system (system) along the front range. The district is specifically required to work collaboratively with the regional transportation district (RTD) to ensure interconnectivity with any passenger rail system operated by or for the RTD and with Amtrak on interconnectivity with Amtrak's Southwest Chief, California Zephyr, and Winter Park Express trains, including but not limited to rerouting of the Amtrak Southwest Chief passenger train. The district must also coordinate with the department of transportation (CDOT) to ensure that any system is well-integrated into the state's multimodal transportation system and does not impair the efficiency or safety of or otherwise adversely affect existing transportation infrastructure or operations. If deemed appropriate by the board of directors of the district and by the board of directors of RTD, the district may share with RTD capital costs associated with shared use of rail line infrastructure in the northwest rail line corridor for passenger train service.The area that comprises the district extends from Wyoming to New Mexico and includes:The entirety of the city and county of Broomfield and the city and county of Denver;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-238	Colorado SB 21-238 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Daneya Esgar Leroy Garcia Matt Gray Rachel Zenzinger	12	16	8	2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d3e82748-13f8-4a03-85b1-c81d646f7dc3	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-238	fc51352215a9298f0431d3350f6f8debe1ba44f7bb658cde8189282dd9bdc2a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-238 (2021A) — Create Front Range Passenger Rail District

The act creates the front range passenger rail district (district) for the purpose of planning, designing, developing, financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining an interconnected passenger rail system (system) along the front range. The district is specifically required to work collaboratively with the regional transportation district (RTD) to ensure interconnectivity with any passenger rail system operated by or for the RTD and with Amtrak on interconnectivity with Amtrak's Southwest Chief, California Zephyr, and Winter Park Express trains, including but not limited to rerouting of the Amtrak Southwest Chief passenger train. The district must also coordinate with the department of transportation (CDOT) to ensure that any system is well-integrated into the state's multimodal transportation system and does not impair the efficiency or safety of or otherwise adversely affect existing transportation infrastructure or operations. If deemed appropriate by the board of directors of the district and by the board of directors of RTD, the district may share with RTD capital costs associated with shared use of rail line infrastructure in the northwest rail line corridor for passenger train service.The area that comprises the district extends from Wyoming to New Mexico and includes:The entirety of the city and county of Broomfield and the city and county of Denver;

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (06/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 26–8 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 40–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
• Matt Gray — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-06-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government introduction
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d3e82748-13f8-4a03-85b1-c81d646f7dc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).